Chief lawyer Navalny threw primaries democratic coalition because Kasyanov – Moskovsky Komsomolets

Earlier similar decision was taken by Ilya Yashin

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The head of the legal department of the Fund’s fight against corruption Ivan Zhdanov declared the termination of its participation in the primaries of the Democratic coalition because of disagreement with the fact that the first place in its list in the elections without alternative was given to the leader of Parnassus Mikhail Kasyanov.

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Photo: Ivan Zhdanov

Recall that last night of his decision and not to take part in the primaries, said deputy chairman Parnassus Ilya Yashin. He explained it by the fact that due to Kasyanov’s figure in the first place the whole coalition list becomes “the most vulnerable”. This Yashin recalled and damaging Kasyanov movie NTV “Kasyanov day”, after which, according to the deputy chairman of Parnassus, that should be “voluntary renunciation of quotas in the first place in the list” to display the “from the blow.”

Zhdanov explained its position somewhat differently: in his words, “the film has no value”, but the problem lies in the fact that the municipal elections in Barvikha where Zhdanov, also a candidate, residents complain about the “actions relative Kasyanov Timothy Klinovsky “. This FBK filed for Klinovsky in court because, according to the staff of the Fund, the illegal seizure of land.

In this regard, Zhdanov, “does not feel comfortable when campaigning for the leader of the list”, and sees that actions of all members of the coalition did not manage to break the “huge antireyting” Kasyanov.

Read how Pelevin tried to save the democratic coalition.

note that the solutions Yashin and Zhdanov already provoked a strong reaction among the opposition, often it turns into outright glee. Thus, supporters of Maxim Katz, at Mayor elections headed the election headquarters Navalny and after sharply at variance with the politician, Twitter noted that the democratic coalition, “came a new training manual” and criticized Kasyanov for his alleged contemptuous words spoken in the NTV film to address colleagues on democratic coalition.

the leader of the Parnassus between the limited short press release in the form of Parnassus Bureau minutes of the meeting where it was decided not to participate Yashin in subsequent primaries.

it should be noted that not all smooth and with this procedure: as noted by the participants on the preliminary vote enrolled far fewer people than expected (the companion Navalny Leonid Volkov blames uncomfortable website democratic coalition “wave of change»)

at the moment the primaries. postponed to the end of May: instead of the expected 100 thousand registered voters left their data only 8000, with the vote and even less: the number does not reach the thousands

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